U14 Purple 24/25 - LGDA

GOG U13s Purple vs LGDA

Finally we were back and ready to play a game at church-gate as we haven’t  played for two weeks running!

With this being the last game of the year we wanted to go out the way we have been playing in the past weeks. We start ok against a well set team. But unfortunately we then went into a shell and wasn’t doing the basic properly. We couldn’t string any passes together and we were just rushing everything. We could only put it down to not playing for the past few weeks. We had a few chances in the first half and moved a few girls positions around but went into half time level. 

Half time 0-0

Strong words to all the girls as we coaches and even the girls themselves knew we could do 10times better. We had to be hard on them as we were making the opposition look and play better than us. 

We start the second half, and from the off it took a little while to get going but the passing was better. Elisa who was making her debut for us today was excellent creating chances down the left and even going on a few runs. That’s what we wanted from the off….a bit of direct play and put their defenders under pressure. Again Elisa was unlucky with an effort that hit the post!  We definitely kept the opposition in their own half throughout the second half, but occasionally they would break through and create one or two chances. We dealt with that swiftly and continued to put them under pressure. Jess was tormenting their left back with crazy runs and unlucky with a few crosses. It just wasn’t our day today in front of goal, but we go away with a point. 

Full time 0-0

All in all we stepped up a little in the second half but again could have easily won it with the chances we had. We have been playing excellent football for this first half of the season and it shows in the league standings. Next year with not many games to go we hope to continue to push on and see where we end up. 

POTM Elisa 🏆